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Winter 2020 E-Forum Featuring Four Essays on Communications to Senior Management and Four Independent Research Papers

The Winter 2020 E-Forum issue features four essays on communications to senior management. Those essays include:

"Communication of Technical Results to Senior Management: The Art of Storytelling" by Jonathan Charak, FCAS, MAAA, CPL

"Communicating in Crisis Situations" by Rick Gorvett, FCAS, CERA, MAAA, FRM, ARM, Ph.D.; Chris Morse, Ph.D.; and Julie Volkman, Ph.D.

"Setting the Scene for Communicating Technical Results to Senior Management" by Christopher Smerald, FCAS, FIA, MAAA

"How to Present Technical Results to Managers without Either Side Feeling Stupid" by Jim Weiss, FCAS, MAAA, CSPA, CPCU

The four independent research papers include:

"A by Layer Approach Algorithm for Computing Increased Limits Factors -- with Adjustments for Varying Policy Limits and Other Common Concerns", by Joseph A. Boor, FCAS, CERA, Ph.D.

"An Actuarial Approach to Behavioral Ratemaking: How Fair Rates Will Encourage Safer (and Slower) Driving "by Michael C. Dubin, FCAS, FSA, MAAA, FCA

"Applying Maximum Entropy Distributions To Determine Actuarial Models," by Jonathan Evans, FCAS, FSA, FCA, CERA, MAAA, WCP

"Bayesian Regularization for Class Rates" by Gary G. Venter, FCAS, ASA, CERA

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